This #StanzaSunday, a moment from “Home” by Warsan Shire—honoring the courage it takes to leave & write.

#Readers, #PoetryLovers, #Educators: read the full poem + teaching resources on Facing History & Ourselves. I’m also grateful to have poems featured there. www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

First #StanzaSunday of spring 🌱 Joy Harjo’s “Remember”

“Remember you are this universe and this / universe is you.”

What poems remind you of the world’s deeper wisdom?

Read: poets.org/poem/remembe...
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For February’s final #StanzaSunday — thoughts on love from one of my favorite poems. “On Love” by Kahlil Gibran affirms for me that Love is the answer, the quiet salvation that lives within us — if only we can open our hearts to its abundance. Full poem here: poets.org/poem/love-8.

Sentiments for this #StanzaSunday, from Tennessee Williams. Here's a quote (also an affirmation or prayer?) that I keep pinned to my desktop. I know the holiday season is not always a "happy" time. Wherever you find yourself in this "mercurial" world, may love & abundance find their way to you.

Thank you, @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for this Beauty:

'Sentiments for this #StanzaSunday, from Tennessee Williams. Here's a quote (also an affirmation or prayer?) that I keep pinned to my desktop. Wherever you find yourself in this "mercurial" world, may love & abundance find their way to you'

Thoughts for this #StanzaSunday from an excerpt by Emily Jungmin Yoon; a poem that holds the crisp edges of winter & the complicated emotions that the holidays can stir.
Read "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today" in its entirety: poets.org/poem/between...

Grateful for Danusha Laméris’s “Small Kindnesses” this #StanzaSunday. I, too, believe “mostly we don’t want to harm each other,” but seek small kindnesses to anchor our hearts in love. What gentle gestures might we offer today—perhaps without even knowing?

Full poem>> grateful.org/resource/sma...

For this final #StanzaSunday of #HispanicHeritageMonth, a poem I wrote at the request of constitutional lawyer Larry Tribe—to honor the D.A.C.A. DREAMers.

Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...

Thoughts for this #StanzaSunday are from Alberto Ríos, "When Giving Is All We Have." I return to this poem time & time again. Love is the ancient wisdom from which we came & to which we return; let's give all we can of ourselves, make boomerangs of our hearts.
poets.org/poem/when-gi...

#StanzaSunday: a moment from my recent #Math4Science interview: What if love is a frequency we’re all attuned to--“our most noble science?” Read “Genius of Love & Stars” (written for the Tech Awards Gala, 2013): richard-blanco.com/2013/11/tech.... For the interview. math4science.org/richard-blan...

This #StanzaSunday, an excerpt from Yahia Lababidi’s The Art of Peace, uniting poets Yehuda Amichai & Mahmoud Darwish—voices from fractured lands speaking across a wound “too deep for slogans.” Poetry remains our enduring act of peace. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-art-of... @ysl.bsky.social

Remembering the luminous Andrea Gibson this #StanzaSunday. Andrea’s poetry championed self-love as a radical act. Now more than ever, we ask ourselves: What small, daily acts can we practice to cultivate love?

Full poem: chapincityblues.com/2023/04/02/w...

For this #StanzaSunday, *I Wish You Knew/Ojalá Supieras* by Jackie Azúa Kramer—part of I'm Your Neighbor Books #SanctuaryStories series, helping children make sense of family separation. Now they’re also sending care packages to families affected by ICE.

Support here: imyourneighborbooks.org

This #StanzaSunday, haiku from the Weybridge contest Haikus for Our Time—inspired by protest signs & co-founded by my friend Julia Alvarez. Every day folks channelling the poets in us all... Read the full array here: www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
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This #StanzaSunday, an excerpt from "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by the late Adam Zagajewski. I return to this poem time and time again. Of course, I understand it now more than ever...

Read the poem in its entirety: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/...

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This #StanzaSunday, on the heels of International Women's Day: an excerpt from Marie Ponsot's "Among Women." May her message of resilience and empowerment encourage each of us to center joy and "endure, endure."

Read the full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

This #StanzaSunday, we remember words by American writer & civil rights leader, Audre Lorde. Each of us holds the power to celebrate our differences, & cultivate joy in diversity: our spectrums of color. May her words uplift, inspire, & sustain us, now & always. (Painting by Corey Barksdale.)

This #StanzaSunday, Emily Dickinson reminds us "Hope" is the thing with feathers." Hope is an act of courage whatever grief life serves the morning arrives and the birds continue to rise in wild flight.

Read the full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/...